u/RusevReigns

It is a bell curve, most people's relationship lives are not to going to resemble either the person who especially gets around or the abstinent person, instead of falling in the middle of a series but not massive amount of sexual relationships.

However just as we should respect the right of the people into having tons of hook-ups to go ahead and get it on, we should also consider that there's a lot of people out there and some people's personality is meant for the complete other extreme. This should also be promoted as also viable and cool if you want to go that way. There are some people where the current system is not working, making them unhappy, etc., maybe a more reserved courting process would click more for them romantically. Or maybe that bf/gf they had at 25 they would've got married to if abstinence pushed them over the edge, and it would've been for their own good. It's acknowledging people are different and there should be options for them.

Is this already the case? In religious areas yes. I don't think for non religious people it's really close which is more popular between casual sex and abstinence or versions of it.

Comparing them in Rock, Country, RnB, Pop and Rap

Rock - Like wtf Gen Z in this department? When was the last new popular rock band? Millennials by miles

Country - Say want you want about the recent run of artists like Morgan Wallen, Ella Langley, Kacey Musgraves, Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Zach Bryan (my personal favorite), etc. but I’ll take it over the decades of CMT cowboy hat bros before that. The older millennials had some artists in late 90s and early 00s, but I’ll say Gen Z by a bit

RnB - Both eras had some highs, millennials had some stars like Usher, Chris Brown, Ne-Yo, Alicia Keys, older Mariah, etc. while the recent era had a new legend who evolved the genre in the Weeknd, females like SZA or Beyonce, rappers like Drake or Kendrick dipping their foot in, Bruno being partly RnB, etc. Frank Ocean is kind of crossed between generations, maybe leaning Gen Z. I will say this is even.

Pop - The pop girls have held up their end relatively well with new superstars like Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, etc. and probably having a bit more ownership over Taylor than millennials, along males like Harry Styles. With that said millennials had loads of pop bangers and artists like Gaga, Perry, Kesha, Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, early Taylor, the Britney/Xtina era, Timberlake, etc. Adele is caught between generations. Noting that the farther you go back the more likely someone is to be a singles carried artist, I will be generous to Gen Z's and say this is also even

Rap - Rap in Gen Z can be characterized by more trap beats and “mumble rap” style delivery and lyrics wise, while I believe pop hooks for rap songs peaked in the millennials era. Gen Z has the stronger group of female rappers. Half of Gen Z’s main rappers like Kendrick, Drake, J Cole generation dip into millennial era, add in Eminem, Kanye, OutKast, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, pop rappers like Nelly etc. and I think to goes to Millennials by solid amount

Do you take pride in instincts and doing what feels right? Or do you see it as an evolution and not weakness to work against the individual gut feeling, and try to replace it with approaches like collective advice?

They have been trying to make the next Pirates of the Caribbean for decades and failing, they couldn't even recapture the lightning in a bottle of the first Pirates movie for its sequels. The light adventure genre seems pretty hard to pull off, you try to satisfy every demo you satisfy none, there is a thin line between having a fantasy type world with light stakes and having no real stakes. Masters of the Universe will probably find this out soon too. Shawn Levy as Starfighter director screams the same approach of they want some light adventure fantasy movie. I think they're better off hiring a playwright for Episode 10 and making this space opera self serious dialog vibe. That's what makes the prequels unique, and you can't recreate the 70s movies vibe it's of a time and place and with old effects.

I'm thinking

Young men - anti Israel, anti woke
Young women - anti Israel, pro woke
Boomers (both genders) - CNN/MSNBC/late night style Trump derangement slop

However I don't have a feel for the the middle aged Gen X range that have stayed pro Democrat instead of turning conservative. They probably have good memories of Bill Clinton and Obama years.

It is natural and unavoidable to be competitive, whether it’s playing recreational games (ie sports/video games/bets/etc) or in non game ways, comparing yourself to others in money/jobs, maybe comparing romantic status, etc.

However, where I think people may lose their mind is when they are competing with the whole world. Thus if they don’t have the job, house, romantic partner, etc. they feel like they are losing the competition to everyone else. Their comparison point is too big and therefore they can’t win. There is always going to be someone who feels ahead of you. Furthermore when you lose to a friend or family member they like, at least they can be happy for them winning. Losing to a million strangers they don’t care about hurts them more.

The best competition is with people who actively know they're playing a game against you. But if a stranger doesn't even know they're competing with you, why does it matter to beat them?

What's the point of having the solar system times like a 100 billion? Surely a much smaller universe would still inspire our sense of wonder.

If getting people to believe in socialism and having it function afterwards requires some social engineering and psychological efforts to "coerce" the normies and influence their thinking, is this a strategy you think is worth it and are ok with? Do you think there can be good propaganda?

Being an AEW pillar is usually like being in Supreme Court, they are committed to MJF, Page, Omega, Moxley, Allin, etc. as top guys probably until they retire. Sometimes if a Cody leaves or Bryan retires, it creates some opening for an Ospreay or Swerve to be top guy, Jericho as an exception to losing it while active as he's the same age as Phil Mickelson if he tried to come back to PGA tour (What have I become, now that I've betrayed, everyone I've ever loved I pushed them all away). Because of this it also makes it difficult to go from midcard to top guy, whether it's Fletcher being one step short of becoming their top heel, Andrade has/had momentum coming back and with his hot guy gimmick but has been used to put over stars, overall it's difficult to make the leap if you lose that big match. Okada was a huge signing at the time but was put in midcard immediately and stayed there.

The pathway of Swerve is one of the most unique. He was former NXT cruiserweight champion that while seen as solid was without the type of elite mark reputation yet of their other big signings, initially put in an enhancement-ish tag team with Keith Lee, who has a bigger career than him to that point. There has been a litany of AEW stars where it's difficult to get past being a lower guy in that spot without being a guy that bounces between factions, or has a singles Dynamite match every few months but always to lose, ie. bald rat tail rebrand Bryan Keith this week. Swerve is an example of truly getting over on the show, not in previous career like Japan or NXT, all the way to being the hottest wrestler in AEW, world champion and having AEW's most acclaimed feud. Now, I think Swerve is pretty cold and on the downswing again. He had a hard time turning heel without people cheering for him and doing the Swerve's house and is now challenging Bandido for ROH title. This type of white hot/cold periods is common in WWE ie one year the Fiend is red hot, the next is having insanely ice cold Wrestlemania feud with Orton, but is relatively rare in AEW. Do I think they are done with Swerve in big spots, no, the return of Page could introduce a new storyline. But I could see him settling into midcard in the long term, maybe is one of Knight's most likely Wembley opponents for TNT title, etc. This would also be a step down from his main event status.

(Ftr, I think Swerve is one of AEW's best stars and they would be dumb to bury him)

No Newsom, Harris 2, wild card like Khanna.

It’s simple the rust belt states don’t speak their language. Who can get Pennsylvania farmers to vote for them? Not West Coast slick guy Newsom. Find someone else. Simple rule, no California.

Much has been made of the logic of capitalism, but I want to make a different type of argument I just think the marketplace is cool. There is all these varieties of stores you can check out, streets with a bunch of businesses with people going in and out of them is a beautiful sight. I like restaurants whether it's sit down ones or and fast food restaurants, I like shopping at the grocery store. I think in art sphere there being a bunch of competing products like movies and music is really cool and fun to follow. I feel the world is more interesting and invigorating because it has capitalism in it.

While Michael Jackson has some massive poppier songs and started out in disco era, overall, I feel like he never fully abandoned RnB influence or made a pure of pop album as Madonna's who I think is the king or queen of the genre in the 80s. Is he really any different genre than RnB stars like Usher and Chris Brown, or is he just the final boss version of them? In some ways the Jackson 5 is the most poppy part of his career.

This is a different question than disliking something, for example I wouldn't say "not my bag" about Rooster, I like dad tv comedies like Apple's lineup, I just don't think Rooster works as well as them so far.

Euphoria however, is a great example of just not my bag, it wasn't in the first two seasons and it definitely ain't this year.

Yes, Netflix has so many subs that mid performing shows still get higher views than other services biggest, but put aside that and ask how many of their shows lately actually feel like hits. Like The Pitt, Pluribus, Euphoria, Paradise, The Madison, DTF St Louis all seem like hits even if you didn't look at the numbers, just by seeing the reaction to them. How many Netflix shows lately are in that conversation this year? Where they can succeed is miniseries. eg. The Beast In Me reaction fits in that group, obviously Adolescence/Baby Reindeer, and His & Hers is their best performing new thing this year.

Netflix is struggling to get any sort of word of mouth breakout going. A show like Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen was going to start ok guaranteed cause of its creators. Otherwise it would be hard to tell it's a "hit".

They are struggling to compete from a quality/interest perspective. How can you talk about Netfix's thin characters and stereotypes as much as a complex character like Harbour on DTF? You can't. They're not inspired enough to compete with Euphoria visually. They were never any better at making tight dumb entertainment than anyone else, just good at marketing them online.

Communism being a miserable failure the last 100 years hasn't made the left not believe in it, but it made it a wounded animal. They're desperate for something to change people's minds.

Israel is like they looked around the world and asked, what country has an oppressed oppressor type relationship that would help convince people the whole Western world is structured this way. The goal is to somehow go from Israel is oppressors that need revolution to overthrow -----> Western leaders are oppressors and need revolution to overthrow ------> Capitalist countries are overthrown for communism. Once embracing this strategy it then filtered down from the most serious communists to the most poseur-y activists doing it to be cool.

Overall, it's not really about Israel. It's kind of a way to manipulate the normies into thinking like commies. Similarly the usage of scary word emotionally loaded word genocide is meant to manipulate them against Israel so they can overthrow it. They did the same thing with race in the peak BLM because using race emotionally is effective on regular people but it was also a shell game by full of shit communists.